What’s harder than being on dating apps? Inventing them.
‘Swiped’
Lily James stars as Whitney Wolfe Herd, the founder of the dating app Bumble, in this biopic directed by Rachel Lee Goldenberg.
From our review:
James has a great capacity to pull fragility and strength together, and her performance is the movie’s backbone. The movie itself is both shakier and shallower. “Swiped” aims to explore the difficulties of being a woman in a man’s world, from workplaces to the internet more widely. It does so in broad strokes with predictable characterization.
Watch on Hulu. Read the full review.
A true story, truly sensationalized.
‘The Lost Bus’
A bus driver (Matthew McConaughey) and a schoolteacher (America Ferrera) must escape a California wildfire with a bus full of children in this thriller directed by Paul Greengrass and based on a true story.
From our review:
“The Lost Bus” is at once too high-minded and too exploitative to work. However skilled the cinematography and editing, there is no saving a movie predicated on looming death with badly written characters and such a frustratingly narrow point of view. Stories about real heroes can be reassuring, but when the villains remain as absent as they are here, it flattens the realism and turns genuine horror into a canned thriller.
In theaters. Read the full review.
Will make your (pig)skin crawl.
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